NEW YORK 



THE '^ 



JOUKNAL OF JM)T A X Y 



BRITISH AND FOREIGX. 



IN MEMORY OF 



EDWARD SHEARBURN MARSHALL 



(1858-1919) 



With Portraits. 



Edwaed Sheaebuex Maeshall v>as born on March 7th, ISoS, 

 in Park Lane, London. He was privately educated, partly in England 

 and pai-tly in Germany, acquiring in the latter country a good know- 

 ledge of the language. In September 1873 he entered Marlborough 

 College, where he remained until Midsummer, 1S77 ; while there he 

 obtained an Old Marlburian Scholarship (187(5), an Exhibition (1877), 

 and a Scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford. At Oxford he took 

 a Second Class in Classical Moderations in 1879 and a Third Class in 

 History in 1881, in which year he o:raduated B.A. ; he took his M.A. 

 in 1884. In 1882 Marshall was at Wells Theological College ; he 

 was ordained deacon in 1883, and was appointed to the Marlborough 

 Mission at Tottenham as curate; here he remained until 1885, taking- 

 priest's orders in 188-4. 



On leading Tottenham, Marshall became curate at Witley, Surrey, 

 and it was during his residence there that he married (on August 1(3, 

 1887) Miss Fanny Isabel Foster — a niece of the Avell-known Avater- 

 colour artist Birket Foster (1825-99), some of whose pictures 

 adorned the Monkton drawing-room. The union was a yerv happy 

 one, and indeed could hardly have been otherwise, for Mrs. Marshall 

 was a woman of exceptional charm and boundless tact, with an unfail- 

 ing sense of humour and a brightness which communicated itself to all 

 who came in contact with her. A devoted Church woman, she was a 

 j^entre of parochial life, possessing that gift of sympathy which 

 ^is not always vouchsafed to earnest workers, with an entire absence of 

 ^the fussiness which sometimes attends and mars their efforts. She 



twas possessed of considerable musical ability, training the village 

 choir and playing the organ in the church. 

 ^^ Although herself not a botanist. Mrs. Marshall took the keenest 

 r^ interest in her husband's botanical work, especially during their 

 summer holidays in Scotland. It was on one of these occasions that a 

 new Hawkweed was found which was described by 31 r. Mai'shall in 

 JorEXAL OF Botany. — Vol. 58. [Jamaey, 1920.] b 



